Learning & Education
- Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom
- All grown-ups were once children, but only few of them remember it
- PISA 2025 Students' reading and mathematics performance declined across the OECD
- Mamdani bans AI in NYC schools
- Exit the Cave
- More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic statistical understanding
- How Universities Should Prepare Founders
- I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch
- Why Sal Khan't: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling
- To become a better writer, read as much as you can
- I should have loved biology (2020)
- Linear algebra done right
- U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’
- How I use LLMs to learn complex topics
- Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments
- How the words we teach English language learners changed
- LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences
- Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL
- Writing by hand is good for your brain
- Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
- No Spanish reading crisis?
- What did SFFA vs. Harvard reveal about admissions?
- A love letter to flashcards
- Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered in-person final; scores fell 50%
- Completing a computer science degree on Coursera
- New AI tutor achieves 0.71-1.30 SD effect size in Dartmouth course [pdf]
- Maybe you should learn something
- Factories are just rooms
- Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown
- Japanese verb conjugation the simple hard way
- Show HN: Teach your kids perfect pitch
- Renting a sewing machine from the library
- Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
- French physicist and media star loses doctorate after plagiarism investigation
- Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone
- A dumpster arrived behind my university's library
- Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows
- Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes
- My Students Can't Read
- Different attitudes towards AI in California's university system
- AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford
- Expertise in the age of AI
- I hated writing until I learned there’s a science to it (2024)
- Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM
- Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore
- Childhood Computing
- The AI zombification of universities
- A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline
- Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent
- OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back Bill to Fund 'AI Literacy' in Schools
- Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics (2023)
- College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work
- Playdate’s handheld changed how Duke University teaches game design
- The looming college-enrollment death spiral
- The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing
- Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom
- Student beauty and grades under in-person and remote teaching
- Oregon school cell phone ban: 'Engaged students, joyful teachers'
- Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?
- Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student
- “This is not the computer for you”
- Training students to prove they're not robots is pushing them to use more AI
- English professors double down on requiring printed copies of readings
- Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?
- UK accounting body to halt remote exams amid AI cheating
- No more O'Reilly subscriptions for me
- Evidence from the One Laptop per Child program in rural Peru
- Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost
- IQ differences of identical twins reared apart are influenced by education
- What happens when even college students can't do math anymore?
- Computer science courses that don't exist, but should (2015)
- Learn to play Go
- From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens adjusting to the smartphone ban
- College baseball, venture capital, and the long maybe
- Why we still can't stop plagiarism in undergraduate computer science (2018)
- Open Source Society University – Path to a free self-taught education in CS
- June Huh dropped out to become a poet, now he’s won a Fields Medal (2022)
- LibreLingo – FOSS Alternative to Duolingo
- The Mensa Reading List for Grades 9-12
- What's Happening to Students?
- Ask HN: Recommend resources that helped your game dev journey?
- Metacognitive laziness: Effects of generative AI on learning motivation
- Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its schools (2023)
- Why is homeschooling becoming fashionable?
- Take the pedals off the bike
- The Illustrated Guide to a PhD
- Northeastern's redesign of the CS curriculum
- Learning Synths
- My little sister's use of ChatGPT for homework is heartbreaking
- Do It in Jeans First
- Show HN: I send myself automated emails to practice Dutch
- Developing Developers (2015)
- Scores for adults are dropping on tests of basic skills
- Inside the university AI cheating crisis
- Digital consumption keeps me from getting better at my job
- U.S. math scores drop on major international test
- Nearly half of teenagers globally cannot read with comprehension
- How to Study Mathematics (2017)
- Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread connectivity in brain
- Education and Healthcare Suck for the Same Reasons
- You must read at least one book to ride
- Learn perfect pitch in 15 years
- California's most neglected group of students: the gifted ones
- School did nothing wrong when it punished student for using AI, court rules
- U.S. women are outpacing men in college completion in every major group
- Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking
- Z-Library Helps Students to Overcome Academic Poverty, Study Finds
- Undergraduates with family income below $200k will be tuition-free at MIT
- Everything Is Just Functions: 1 week with David Beazley and SICP
- SICP: The only computer science book worth reading twice? (2010)
- Treating bullying as everyone's problem reduces incidence in primary schools
- The letter ℘: name and origin? (2017)
- A Student's Guide to Writing with ChatGPT
- The EdTech Revolution Has Failed
- The English Paradox: Four decades of life and language in Japan
- The evolution of nepotism in academia, 1088-1800
- Could you pass this 8th grade test from 1912?
- School is Not Enough: Learning is a consequence of doing (2021)
- Learning to Learn
- Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan
- Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating accusations
- Ireland's big school secret: how a year off-curriculum changes teenage lives
- The phone ban has had a big impact on school work
- Show HN: HTML for People
- The Atlantic Did Me Dirty
- 'Students who use AI as a crutch don't learn anything'
- 12 Months of Mandarin
- Math from Three to Seven
- I Quit Teaching Because of ChatGPT
- Students paid thousands for a Caltech boot camp that Caltech didn't teach
- Reading texts on paper versus computer screen: Effects on reading comprehension [pdf] (2012)
- Ask HN: Platform for 11 year old to create video games?
- The Cheating Device (ChatGPT on a TI-84) [video]
- Kids who use ChatGPT as a study assistant do worse on tests
- Athletes and musicians pursue virtuosity in fundamental skills
- Building LLMs from the Ground Up: A 3-Hour Coding Workshop
- Maker Skill Trees
- Caltech, long a bastion of male students, enrolls first class of majority women
- The Triple Failure of 2U, EdX, and Axim
- How a flawed idea is teaching kids to be poor readers (2019)
- You are not dumb, you just lack the prerequisites
- On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (1988)
- Greenwich schools to ban most cellphones, Apple Watches, Fitbits and more
- The Expert Mind [pdf] (2006)
- Increasing Retention Without Increasing Study Time [pdf]
- Show HN: Hanon Pro – piano technique and exercises for the digital age
- Creativity fundamentally comes from memorization?
- How to choose a textbook that is optimal for oneself?
- My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
- Americans' confidence in higher education has taken a nosedive
- The Greatest Educational Life Hack: Learning Math Ahead of Time
- I am starting an AI+Education company
- Solving the Worst Problem in Programming Education: Windows
- "AI", students, and epistemic crisis
- How to think in writing
- Teaching general problem-solving skills is not a substitute for teaching math [pdf] (2010)
- How I turned seemingly 'failed' experiments into a successful PhD
- The joy of reading books you don't understand
- Making AI better at math tutoring
- How babies and young children learn to understand language
- Fast Crimes at Lambda School
- Gavin Newsom wants to take smartphones out of schools
- Group of 17 London secondary schools join up to go smartphone-free
- Experts vs. Imitators
- Why "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" matters (2011)
- The number of CS grads who don't even know basic Git commands is astounding
- I bought an encyclopedia
- Feynman’s Razor
- An intuitive guide to Maxwell's equations (2020)
- New head of one of the world’s oldest universities organized a citation cartel
- How actors remember their lines
- All the remedial classes in one place
- Sal Khan is pioneering innovation in education again
- Scandal at America's top science fair
- Calculus with Julia
- Ilya Sutskever: “If you learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters”
- Exercises to Learn Rust
- Mindfulness interventions for teens decrease mindfulness, study finds
- Becoming an Amateur Polyglot
- 23% of bachelor's degrees and 43% of master's degrees have a negative ROI
- Book people think they know why 9-year-olds stop reading for fun
- AI copilots are changing how coding is taught
- Harvard applications drop 5% after year of turmoil on the Ivy League campus
- The Ivy League and other elite private colleges are losing esteem
- Show HN: I made a spaced repetition tool to master coding problems
- I rewired my brain to become fluent in math (2014)
- Half of Americans say Public K-12 Education is Going In The Wrong Direction
- I should have loved biology (2020)
- U-M finds students with alphabetically lower-ranked names receive lower grades
- Debugging the Doctor Brain: Who's teaching doctors how to think?
- Calculus Made Easy
- Student debt is haunting Americans from graduation to retirement
- What happens when we pay public high school teachers based on performance
- Harvard will require test scores for admission again
- When teaching computer architecture, why are universities using obscure CPUs?
- Some colleges will soon charge $100k a year – how did this happen?
- How to graduate your PhD when you have no hope
- Ask HN: What Are You Learning?
- School absences have ‘exploded’ almost everywhere
- Math writing is dull when it neglects the human dimension
- Show HN: I made a cheap alternative to college-level math & physics tutoring
- Show HN: Glossarie – a new, immersive way to learn a language
- School lunch breaks in France can be two hours (2012)
- The Case Against Homework
- Eloquent JavaScript 4th edition (2024)
- U.S. students will take the SAT online
- New York medical school eliminates tuition after $1B gift
- Peter Thiel's $100k offer to skip college is more popular than ever
- Why Writing by Hand Is Better for Memory and Learning
- Yale will again require standardized test scores for admission
- Faculty group calls on Yale to make teaching 'distinct from activism'
- I taught the Iliad to Chinese teenagers (2021)
- Think Python, 3rd Edition
- Duolingo Sucks, Now What?
- Grade inflation at UC Riverside, and institutional pressures for easier grading
- Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity
- Oslo acquires ChatGPT for 110k students and teachers
- Report on the role of standardized test scores in undergraduate admissions [pdf]
- How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim (2019)
- DIY MBA: My Reading List (2019)
- Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand? (2007) [pdf]
- Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards
- Emergency-hired teachers without degrees as effective as licensed educators
- Relearning math as an adult
- Ask HN: 9-yo son wants to build a game, I'm lost. What can I do?
- The Hacker News Top books of 2023
- What happens when a school bans smartphones? A complete transformation
- Why don't schools teach debugging, or, more fundamentally, fundamentals?
- FSRS: A modern, efficient spaced repetition algorithm
- Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)
- Ask HN: Good book to learn modern networking?
- Duolingo Cuts 10% of Contractors as It Uses More AI to Create App Content
- A tale of two teenagers (2023)
- Most states start school too early in the morning
- Notation Must Die: The Battle for How We Read Music [video]
- Ask HN: Programming Courses for Experienced Coders?
- Things software developers should learn about learning
- Can Microsoft Flight Simulator help me learn to fly or make me a better pilot?
- Ask yourself dumb questions and answer them (2020)
- The Art of Electronics (2015)
- From Nand to Tetris (2017)
- Why Is the Press Attacking Home Schoolers?
- Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms
- Math Team
- It Sure Looks Like Phones Are Making Students Dumber
- How to learn chess as an adult (2021)
- Self-teaching, spaced repetition, and why books don't work
- Ask HN: Daily practices for building AI/ML skills?
- High school math doesn't prepare most students for their college majors
- 95%-ile isn't that good (2020)
- Things I learned from teaching
- Modern C++ Programming Course
- Ask HN: Is Knuth's TAOCP worth the time and effort?
- Spaced repetition for teaching two-year olds how to read
- Show HN: New visual language for teaching kids to code
- 15-150: Principles of Functional Programming
- Coding Is Hard
- Show HN: Open-source tool for creating courses like Duolingo
- US Confidence in Higher Education Institutions Continues Long Decline
- Lessons I wish I had learned before teaching differential equations [pdf] (1997)
- Thiel's Unicorn Success Is Awkward for Colleges